CL_Pino_MarineSGTVet
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I just started hunting artifacts recently cause I saw something strange in an area on my dad's farm that has a history of many arrowheads but we don't plow or anything so over the past 25 yrs or so it was little things here and there......but now that I started digging below an over hanging rock cliff I've came up with small to large red and black painted stones of all sizes that still retain beautiful color, and scrpers to what looks like celts and axes...ALL PAINTED RED WITH BLACK MARKINGS. I've also found MANY effigy stones mainly birds and Mountain lions carved and worked into pieces from nickel size to bigger than both hands. My best pieces so far are a stone pipe that has a red bird painted inside (told it was a Thunderbird) the piece is all rock and I haven't found anything clay....I also have broken pipe pieces, an unfinished pipe (I think I can't get mud out of hole and don't think the holes connected before it was lost or something....and I'm wary of cleaning all these pieces to much. My other best pieces are what looks like a small medicine bowl the size of maybe able to hold two or three tablespoons of medicine....All stone.... that has a spout like thing smoothed into it with a bird effigy on it..on the bottom you can see heat/fire has been exposed to it... I will have pics shortly as soon as my wife wakes up to take them. This was all found in two areas on the farm... I live in Fayette County, WV close to the Gauley River...from the top of our mountain you can see the walls of the gauley....I'm guessing there must have been many panthers around (since so close to cliffs of Gauley) due to SO MANY PANTHER EFFIGY STONES I've found from quarter size to dinner plate size. Pics will be posted ASAP.
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